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Email from Rocco Rossi National Director LPC

Dear Pierre,

Be part of a new politics - Fight back against Conservative attack adsTrust the Conservatives to get attack ads out faster than they can deliver their promised stimulus funding. Unable to provide leadership himself, Stephen Harper has launched new ads attempting to divert attention away from his government's failures to fix the economy and to undermine the credibility of the one leader he knows can take his place - Michael Ignatieff.

Enough is enough. Please make a donation today and help Michael respond with a new kind of politics and hold this government to account.

Canadians deserve a government dedicated to solving problems, not partisan attacks. Our future depends on it. Michael's honesty and leadership have already begun to offer Canadians a sense of hope for a brighter future, with a government that will help Canada prosper and grow. Show your support and let's remind the Conservatives that their games won't work - Canada comes first.

Thank you,

Rocco Rossi
National Director
Liberal Party of Canada

Please forward this message to your friends and colleagues and encourage them to get involved. With each new voice, each donation, each new membership, and each letter to the editor our ability to create a new kind of politics continues to grow.

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Email from Mitch Stewart : Organizing for America ( BarackObama.com)

Pierre,

Monday morning, an unlikely gathering of health care industry and union leaders emerged from the White House, announcing a historic agreement to lower medical costs and save the average family up to $2,500. This kind of broad coalition would have been unthinkable in the past, when the old politics of division and short-term self interest held sway. But this is a new day.

Yesterday afternoon, President Obama announced the three bedrock principles that any comprehensive health care reform must achieve: (1) reduce costs, (2) guarantee choice, and (3) ensure all Americans have quality, affordable health care. And he set a hard goal for getting it done by the end of this year.

For those determined to oppose reform, the President's announcement means lobbyists are already scrambling across D.C. For the rest of us, it means there's no time to lose. As we speak, Congress is negotiating the details for health care reform, so the first step is showing where the American people stand.

Please click below to sign a declaration of support urging Congress to follow President Obama's three core principles for health care reform -- and to enact them before the end of this year:

Watch the President's remarks and sign the declaration

(The more signatures we have, the more powerful our message will be, so please add your name and then forward this note on to family and friends.)

The health care crisis is not new, but it's getting worse. For decades, real health care reform has been blocked by special interest lobbying and political point-scoring. We simply cannot go any further down this dangerous road of delay and denial. But we don't have to.

Yesterday's agreement marks only the beginning of the broad coalition we need. The most important reason this round of health care reform will be different is you. Last fall millions of regular people came together and did the impossible. Now, we've got to roll up our sleeves, join hands with those new to our movement, and do it again.

Congress is already hammering out the details of the health care package, and it could still go any number of ways. Our representatives need to understand that when the President lays out these three bedrock principles, Americans of every stripe are standing with him. Yesterday's diverse gathering was a powerful start -- and now it's up to us.

It's time to stand up. Please sign the declaration of support today:

Reducing costs, guaranteeing choice, and ensuring care for all are ambitious goals, but they are nothing less than what the American people deserve. And passing real health care reform this year is nothing less than what the American people need.

Thank you,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

P.S. -- Here are some excerpts from the President's announcement yesterday that lay out the three principles for health care reform and why we need it this year. Please forward this note to people who want to know where the President stands.


In the coming weeks and months, Congress will be engaged in the difficult issue of how best to reform health care in America. I'm committed to building a transparent process where all views are welcome. But I'm also committed to ensuring that whatever plan we design upholds three basic principles: First, the rising cost of health care must be brought down; second, Americans must have the freedom to keep whatever doctor and health care plan they have, or to choose a new doctor or health care plan if they want it; and third, all Americans must have quality, affordable health care.

These are principles that I expect to see upheld in any comprehensive health care reform bill that's sent to my desk -- I mentioned it to the groups that were here today. It's reform that is an imperative for America's economic future, and reform that is a pillar of the new foundation we seek to build for our economy; reform that we can, must, and will achieve by the end of this year.

Ultimately, the debate about reducing costs -- and the larger debate about health care reform itself -- is not just about numbers; it's not just about forms or systems; it's about our own lives and the lives of our loved ones. And I understand that. As I've mentioned before during the course of the campaign, my mother passed away from ovarian cancer a little over a decade ago. And in the last weeks of her life, when she was coming to grips with her own mortality and showing extraordinary courage just to get through each day, she was spending too much time worrying about whether her health insurance would cover her bills. So I know what it's like to see a loved one who is suffering, but also having to deal with a broken health care system. I know that pain is shared by millions of Americans all across this country.

And that's why I was committed to health care reform as a presidential candidate; that's why health care reform is a key priority to this presidency; that's why I will not rest until the dream of health care reform is finally achieved in the United States of America.

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Sujet polémique : Couriel : Le Québécois Concernant le Lancement de : Des Célébrations 400 fois Détournées de leur Sens.

Invitation - Lancement

Les Éditions du Québécois sont fières de vous inviter au lancement de l'anthologie
Québec 2008 : des célébrations 400 fois détournées de leur sens. Textes réunis sous la direction de Jacques Beaumier et Jean-François Vallée.

Date : Le mercredi 6 mai 2009, 19 h.
Lieu : Société Saint-Jean Baptiste de la Mauricie, 3239, rue Papineau, salle Georges Meyers, Trois-Rivières (près du cégep.

Le 375e anniversaire de la fondation de Trois-Rivières nous fournit un prétexte en or pour informer les Trifluviens du traitement qu'on a réservé aux symboles nationaux québécois et à l'histoire nationale du Québec durant toute l'année 2008, à l'occasion du 400e de la ville de Québec. Les Éditions du Québécois et les membres du Collectif commémoration Québec 1608-2008 unissent leurs voix afin d'alerter les « porteurs de fierté québécoise » de la Mauricie qu'il y a péril identitaire en la demeure : le risque est élevé que le comité organisateur fasse comme à Québec, soit mettre de l'avant le festif et gommer l'identitaire et l'historique. Le passage suivant, tiré du site officiel des fêtes du 375e (www.375tr.com) n'a rien de bien rassurant : « Divertir Trifluviens et visiteurs, telle est la devise du Comité des Fêtes du 375e ». Depuis janvier, on a même remplacé le logo comprenant une fleur de lys par. une flamme olympique !

L'ouvrage collectif Québec 2008 : des célébrations 400 fois détournées de leur sens est le fruit de plus d'un an de réflexions, de débats et de discussions autour des activités organisées par la Société du 400e dans le cadre de l'anniversaire de fondation de la ville de Québec. Chaque jour de 2008, en effet, et le plus souvent à contre-courant des points de vue officiels, historiens, journalistes et autres observateurs vigilants ont été nombreux à rédiger des lettres d'opinion, éditoriaux, chroniques, articles et autres blogues, et cette anthologie les réunit et les réactualise.

Nos inquiétudes de départ se sont en bout de course avérées fondées : quelque chose de puissant a empêché la Société du 400e de souligner la dimension historique proprement québécoise de la fête et, surtout, d'afficher nos symboles nationaux distinctifs. Ce lancement sera pour vous l'occasion de mesurer à quel point. Cette soirée sera agrémentée d'une présentation sur écran géant des images les plus révélatrices croquées pendant les festivités et des extraits les plus convaincants contenus dans l'anthologie.

Bienvenue à tous ceux qui ont à coeur l'identité québécoise !

Pour information :

Éditions du Québécois
418-661-0305
plbegin@lequebecois.org
www.lequebecois.org

Message de Nicolas Girard aux membres, amis et sympathisants du Parti Québécois à l’Occasion de la Campagne de Financement 2009

Leader's Speech Introduction Video

Courriel de Michael Ignatieff :

Chers amis,

Hier, j’ai quitté la scène de notre congrès biennal à Vancouver. Quelle émotion incroyable ! La salle était pleine à craquer de libéraux passionnés, chacun d’entre nous plein d’énergie après le bon travail que nous avons fait, et prêt à faire celui qui nous attend.

[Vous pouvez voir le discours de Michael et la vidéo de présentation ici.]

Vous pouvez voir le discours de Michael et la vidéo de présentation ici.

C’est un grand honneur d’être votre chef.

J’ai présenté mon projet pour un Canada plus fort et plus uni, un Canada où nous dépassons nos propres attentes, où nous nous impressionnons nous-mêmes. Un Canada qui impressionne le monde entier.

J’ai dit que, même si la route qui nous mènera de nouveau à la prospérité est longue, nous savons quelle voie nous devons emprunter. C’est la voie canadienne. Nous devons bâtir une société fondée sur la justice et l’égalité des chances, une société où chaque Canadien peut contribuer pleinement à la réussite de son pays.

Un pays où il est permis de rêver, et où l’on ose agir.

Nous repartons de Vancouver forts et unis, motivés par de nouvelles aspirations. Nous sommes prêts à relever les défis qui nous attendent. Nous sommes prêts à gagner les prochaines élections.

Avec votre aide, nous réussirons.

Bien à vous,


Michael

Voici le vidéo du discours :

Michael's Convention Speech from Liberal on Vimeo.

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